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Long before that, however, Mr Clinton’s sexual appetite was causing problems.

According to the documentary, his
political team realised it was a stumbling block during his failed run
for Congress in 1974 in his home state of Arkansas.

All in the past: Monica Lewinsky (left) now lives in New York and Bill Clinton (right) at a public speaking engagement last week

Campaign manager Paul Fray said: 'You
got to understand that at one time there was at least 25 women per day
coming through there trying to find him and I’d tell them he was out on
the road.

‘Lord it was bad. Bad, bad bad, bad bad.'

Marla Crider, who worked with Mr
Clinton in Arkansas and had an affair with him, describes women as being
‘literally mesmerised’.

It was like flies to honey. I don't
think there is any question Hillary was hurt.'

- Marla Crider, Former advisor

She says: ‘It was like flies to honey.

‘He needed that, he needed that kind
of adoration. I don’t think there was any question that Hillary was hurt
whether it was me, or anyone else’.

Among those interviewed is Betsey
Wright, Mr Clinton’s trusted political aide, who made a crucial
intervention in his career in 1987 the day before he was due to announce
his run for presidency.

She confronted Mr Clinton with a list of his previous girlfriends who he had to deal with.

Writer Gail Sheely said: ‘Just the
day before the press conference he was going to announce that he was
going to run, Betsey Wright, his ferociously protective campaign
manager, sat him down with a list of names of women and went through one
after the other

Explosive: A four-hour documentary, set to air next week, about former president Bill Clinton will dedicate a full hour to his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky

Close encounter: President Bill Clinton goes into hug 23-year-old Monica Lewinsky with whom he had an affair during his first-term in the White House

'How many times? Where did you meet her? How likely is she to talk?'

Clinton said for each name that ‘she’ll never say anything’, but Miss Wright replied: ‘But you don’t know that!’

'You
got to understand that at one time there was at least 25 women per day
coming through there trying to find him and I’d tell them he was out on
the road. Lord it was bad. Bad, bad bad, bad bad.'

Miss Wright tells the documentary: ‘It became clear it was not the time for him to do it. This was not the time.’

By the time he got to the White House
in 1992, however, Mr Clinton appeared to be having even more difficulty
controlling himself.

And when Miss Lewinsky arrived as one of his interns, his self-control evaporated completely.

Ken Gormley, a legal expert working
in the White House, tells the documentary that there were 'almost these
sparks flying between them from the first moment when they saw each
other'.

And when the affair became public
Miss Wright says that his staff were deeply upset because he had lied to
them and lied 'to a lot of people'.

Advisor: Dick Morris, former aide to Bill Clinton, said the former president did not take his advice to tell the American public the truth

On of Mr Clinton’s closest advisers,
Dick Morris, tells the documentary: ‘When the Lewinsky scandal broke the
president paged me and I returned the call.

‘He said: "Ever since I go here to
the White House I’ve had to shut my body down, sexually I mean, but I
screwed up with this girl.

'"I didn’t do what they said I did but I may have done so much that I can’t prove my innocence."

'I said to him that the problem that
presidents have is not the sin, it’s the cover-up and you should explore
just telling the American people the truth.

'He said: "Really, do you think I could do that?"

'I said let me test it, let me run a
poll, so I took a poll... and I called him back and I said they will
forgive the adultery, but they won’t easily forgive that you lied.'

Clinton, now 65, disregarded his advice and continued to conceal his relationship with Lewinsky.

In the end he was impeached but acquitted.

He did however remain very popular
and left office with a 65 per cent approval rating, the highest exiting
poll out of any U.S. President.

The documentary also features fascinating colour about the Clinton White House with aides describing his first year as 'chaos'.

The West Wing resembled a fraternity
house with pizza boxes littering the floor as bullish young aides who
did not even wear ties wandered in and out of meetings as and when they
liked.

Troubled: President Clinton and first lady Hillary walk outside the Oval Office in 1998 after the details of his extra-marital affair with Lewinsky were made public

'Mastermind': Then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, pictured at the White House in 1995, features prominently in the film and she is credited with reviving Bill Clinton's career in its early days

Summing up Mr Clinton’s presidency,
U.S. journalist David Maraniss, tells the documentary: 'People always
try to separate the good from the bad in Clinton and say that, if he had
not done certain things, he would have been a great president.

'But you can't do that. Those were his major characteristics'.

Clinton’s former press secretary Dee
Dee Myers adds: 'How many second chances does a person deserve?
Clinton’s view is as many second chances as a person is willing to
take.'

Hillary Clinton also features
prominently in the film and she is credited with being the ‘mastermind’
of reviving his career in its early days.

When Penthouse model Gennifer Flowers
claimed to have had a 12-year affair with her husband, Mrs Clinton' brought him back from the dead' with a robust TV interview in which she
famously said she was not going to 'stand by my man' like the Tammy
Wynette song.

Hot water: Clinton was impeached while he was president but acquitted of perjury charges and obstruction of justice

Clinton political advisor Carol
Willis says: 'Bill Clinton is a smart guy, a very smart guy but he will
tell you that Hillary is much smarter than he is, she’s much tougher
than he is, she’s more of a pragmatist.'

The documentary comes days after the
publication of a book by former White House intern Mimi Alford which
detailed her 18-month affair with former American president John F
Kennedy in the 1960s.

In her book Miss Alford alleges that
Mr Kennedy took her virginity in his wife’s bedroom as colleagues drank
cocktails down the hallway.

She also claimed he once asked her to perform a sex act on a senior aide whilst he looked on.